2022 Women in the Lead: Leadership Conference


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	BRANDI CHASTAIN Retired Soccer Player Two-Time FIFA World Cup Champion Two-Time Olympic Gold-Medalist Coach, Author & Sports Broadcaster
Brandi was a member of the US National team over 12 years between December 1988 and January 2004, collecting 192 caps. During that time, she served as a trailblazer for women?s soccer as part of the golden decade of the US Women?s National team during the 90?s, one of the most dominant teams the sport has seen to date. She was a member for the 1991 and 1999 Women?s World Cup Championship teams as well as the Olympic teams that brought home gold in 1996 and 2004 and silver in 2000. The Bay Area native is best known for elevating the profile of women?s soccer with her game winning penalty kick in the 1999 FIFA Women?s World Cup that defeated China and ignited an explosive soccer following and increased participation in the sport. Brandi began her collegiate career in 1986 at the University of California (CAL), she was honored by Soccer America as the Freshman Player of the Year. Following her Freshman year, Brandi was forced to sit out for two years while recovering from reconstructive knee surgery on both knees. She returned to soccer in 1996 after transferring to Santa Clara University. There, she helped lead the Broncos to two NCAA College Cup Semi-Finals. Brandi was one of 24 founding players of the Women?s United Soccer Association (WUSA), she was a member of the San Jose CyberRays from 2001-2003. During the Inaugural season of the league, she helped the team capture the WUSA?s World Championship title. She has also been a member of the California Storm since the mid 90?s and still currently holds a place on the roster. Brandi attended Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose, CA where she helped the AMHS girls soccer team to three section championships. Brandi has made the most of her time away from pitch becoming a published author of a book titled It?s Not about the Bra, serving as a soccer analyst on ABC/ESPN and NBC Sports coverage of MLS and Olympic soccer competition and remaining active on the field. Brandi currently resides in San Jose, CA with her husband Jerry Smith, Head Coach of Santa Clara Women?s Soccer team, and their son Jaden. She is co-founder of the Bay Area Women?s Sports Initiative (BAWSI), a nonprofit that mobilizes women athletes to serve as role models of health, hope, and wholeness to girls and women in underserved communities and to children with disabilities.
	NANCY KEENAN President DAHLIN
For three decades, Nancy Keenan has crafted architectural design solutions and collaborated on the visioning for communities throughout California and China. Known for her thoughtful design approach and leadership, she oversees firm-wide strategy. She has guided DAHLIN?s transition to an ESOP firm as well as into new market sectors and regions. Nancy is committed to development of the next generation of leaders at DAHLIN, ensuring that the firm remains at the forefront of innovative design, led by a diverse and inclusive group of people. She also serves as Board Chair for the HomeAid Northern California Chapter, one of the region?s top non-profit providers of housing for the homeless and the charitable arm of the BIA Bay Area.
	EMILY PILLOTON-LAM Founder & Executive Director Girls Garage (Formerly Project H Design)
Emily Pilloton-Lam is a designer, builder, educator, and Founder/Executive Director of the nonprofit Girls Garage. For the past 15 years, Emily has taught and worked alongside youth ages 9-18 to co-design and build public architecture projects. With students in her Studio H high school program and Girls Garage after-school and summer programs, she has built a farmers market pavilion, tiny homes for the unhoused, a school library, a public bus stop, urban farm structures, and more. She believes that by giving young girls and gender-expansive youth the physical and personal tools needed to build the world they want to see, we can change the authorship of our built environments and upend power structures within our communities. Her work combines technical STEM and trade skills with mentorship and support for the whole student that honors and amplifies their identities. With an educational philosophy rooted in community organizing, hands-on work, and bravery, Emily also works with educators and schools to reinvent learning through personalized and often politically engaged project-based learning. Emily holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of California Berkeley, and a Master of Fine Arts in Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has held academic positions as a Lecturer in the College of Environmental Design at the University of California Berkeley and a Visiting Professor at UC Davis, and is the author of three books, Design Revolution: 100 Products that Empower People, Tell Them I Built This: Transforming Schools, Communities, and Lives With Design-Based Education, and Girls Garage: How To Use Any Tool, Tackle Any Project, and Build The World You Want To See. Her work was the subject of the full-length documentary If You Build It, about her Studio H students? farmers market project in rural North Carolina. She has presented her work on the TED Stage and to the Obama Administration?s Office of Science and Technology Policy, and has been featured on The Today Show, The Colbert Report, Forbes, and CNN. She lives with her family, human and canine, in Oakland, California.